FCC Learning Events
- Advanced Commodity Marketing
- Agricultural Economic Outlook
- Beef Market Outlook
- Commodity Marketing
- Estate Planning
- Grain and Oilseed Market Outlook
- High Performance Management
- Hiring and Keeping Employees
- Maximizing Profitability: Financial Budgeting
- Maximizing Profitability: Statements and Ratios
- Optimizing Dairy Revenue
- Putting Your Smartphone to Work
- Setting Goals and Taking Action
- Succession Planning
- The Ultimate Farm Management Challenge
- Instructors
Advanced Commodity Marketing Management
This one-day workshop teaches you the management skills you need to effectively read and forecast commodity markets. This is a must-attend for producers who want to take their commodity marketing tool kit to the next level.
Benefits of attending
- learn more about preparing your cost of production statements
- measure your financial risk for the current year
- learn to create a detailed selling plan for your cash crops
- see how to limit your price risk but still benefit if prices move higher
- explore advanced options strategies that reflect your price expectations
Agricultural Economic Outlook
Get a better understanding of the prospects for local and international markets and what effect this could have on your business.
Benefits of attending
- discover the connection between economic growth and agricultural markets, and how it relates to commodity, energy and currency markets
- get a better understanding of the prospects for local and international inflation and job growth, and what effect this could have on your business
- learn what drives the business of agriculture so you can better adjust to an ever-changing economy
Beef Market Outlook
Discover what to expect in beef markets and learn how to position yourself to mitigate the risks.
Benefits of attending
- learn key impacting factors shaping North American and international beef markets
- understand the effect of livestock inventory levels on domestic and export countries
- discover how new legislation in Canada and the U.S. is changing the industry
Commodity Marketing
This two-day workshop teaches you key strategies in price risk management that can help you protect your business from fluctuating commodity markets. By developing a price risk management plan, you'll be able to better prepare for market downturns and take advantage of growing commodity prices. Whether you have a background in commodity marketing or you're just starting out, you'll walk away with new information, tools and insights.
Benefits of attending
- learn about futures and options
- understand how commodity markets work and what influences them
- discover the importance of knowing your costs of production
- develop your own commodity marketing plan
- maximize your revenue
Estate Planning
Estate planning is often a difficult topic to bring up, but it's something that's never too early or too late to talk about. And once it's talked about, everyone feels better taking the first step towards having a solid plan. This workshop will help bring your family or business partners together to discuss your plans and teach you how to protect the assets you have worked so hard to build.
Benefits of attending
- understand the steps involved in starting your estate plan
- learn how to protect your assets and your family
- gain valuable insight into potential tax strategies and legal issues
- learn how to communicate your wishes surrounding your estate
- find peace in talking with your family about a difficult subject
Grain and Oilseed Market Outlook
Learn about the current state of grains and oilseeds and what you can do to prepare for the future.
Benefits of attending
- see how changes in demand resulting from this year’s production challenges will affect the sale of this and next year’s crop
- learn what commodities have the best profit potential and if adjustments to your crop rotation are necessary
- see how demand from countries such as China will impact prices
High Performance Management
Maximize your management potential by focusing on the four pillars of management: production, marketing, human resources and finance. Learn to develop an effective and balanced approach towards growing or transitioning your business and achieve your ultimate potential.
Benefits of attending
- learn new skills and techniques to integrate and balance production, marketing, human resources and finance for your operation
- increase your management skills on par with your growing business
- network with visionary producers and entrepreneurs
Hiring and Keeping Employees
Better employees make a better workplace. By learning how to attract and manage your employees, you'll develop them to their full potential, so you can focus on growing your operation. Whether you're hiring permanent or seasonal employees, it's a big investment. This workshop teaches you how to hire and keep them.
Benefits of attending
- learn what process to follow when finding and hiring an employee
- manage employees so you have more time to focus on other areas of business
- create strategies to motivate employees beyond using money
- discover why people stay with their jobs and why they leave them
- understand how to manage employees who are also family members
Maximizing Profitability: Financial Budgeting
Learn to improve how you analyze your operation, see trends and make management decisions. As you manage your business, decisions about the future of your operation continue to arise. Learn how better budget analysis can help you profit and prepare for change, expansion or diversification.
Benefits of attending
- prepare an annual budget
- set a profit target each season
- understand what effect expanding or downsizing could have on your costs and revenues
- know what information is important to focus on, and what isn't
- train the next generation to understand the financial operation of the farm
Maximizing Profitability: Statements and Ratios
It's time to understand how to put the numbers to work for you. This workshop will help you advance your knowledge of key financial statements and ratios so you can analyze your operation better and maximize your financial performance. By understanding your numbers, you'll make more effective decisions for your operation.
Benefits of attending
- learn how to calculate financial ratios and use your financial statements to analyze how your operation is performing
- know how to use financial knowledge to make better decisions
- better monitor your operation's performance
- gain clarity about where you stand financially
- educate your family and business partners in managing your finances
Optimizing Dairy Revenue
Learn how small changes can add up to big profits for your dairy operation.
Benefits of attending
- learn how to identify your strengths and weaknesses
- improve profits by increasing incomes and decreasing expenses
- get tips to make the most out of every facet of your operation
Putting Your Smartphone to Work
Discover how smartphones and other mobile tools can help you effectively manage your operation.
Benefits of attending
- look beyond email, markets and weather to other mobile tools that can help you work faster and smarter
- discover what ag-related mobile apps and resources are available to producers
- increase your technology comfort level
- there is something for everyone, regardless of your technology comfort level
Setting Goals and Taking Action
What’s your vision for the future? Learn how to make a long-term plan and stick with it. Ideal for producers at all levels, this workshop will help you get on the right path to putting a vision and goals down on paper. With everyone in your operation going in the same direction, you'll enjoy a more effective workplace.
Benefits of attending
- understand the fundamentals of effective vision and goal setting
- develop a vision statement that's been discussed with everyone involved
- gain vision and clarity that's crucial to your operation's success
- ensure all members of your operation are going the same direction and enjoy a more effective workplace
Succession Planning
Transferring the farm can be an emotional issue for everyone. Finding out what's involved can bring you and your family that much closer to having peace of mind. This one-day workshop will walk you through the first steps in transferring your farm. It’s important and essential training for producers of any age.
Benefits of attending
- identify the components of a succession plan
- take the first step towards being fair to everyone, including yourself
- balance the needs of everyone in your family
- learn what steps to take if your children are not in farming
- learn how to prepare your business for your retirement
- get everyone in your family talking about a difficult subject
The Ultimate Farm Management Challenge
It’s not always easy to work with your family. Dr. John G. Fast offers insights and best practices to help your family handle its management and succession challenges with creativity, boldness and a spirit of mutual caring. As the founder of the Centre for Family Business, John has helped hundreds of Canadian farm families find out how to work together and grow their operations into profitable farm businesses.
Benefits of attending
- avoid some of the habits that destroy the farm family business
- decide what “fair” means and optimize sibling partnerships
- use your family's strengths to prepare high-performing successors
- set goals and get started with your family's five-step succession plan
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